In this video I'm going to show you a simple way to do vintage sunset designs
in Affinity Designer using layer mask and layer effects. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all about
helping you design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you like to do don't forget to
hit that subscribe button. So in this video i'm going to teach you about vintage sunsets
i probably should have done this video a long time ago vintage sunsets have been really popular
in the last year or two so this tutorial is going to be really good because i'm going to show you
basic tools in affinity designer mainly the rectangle tool and some of the different layer
effects you're going to want to stay to the end to see all the different vintage sunsets as well
as another edition of trend credits so let's get started so here we are in affinity designer
i wanted to show you what happens when you start a new document so first you could choose letter
here if you wanted to do that you can see the dimensions are eight and a half by eleven
uh if you wanted to do my presets you could do that and save your own make a custom one do pixels
and change this to 4500 by 5400
and that is your merch by amazon t-shirt size make sure it's pixels again let me move my face
out of the way here so now with my face out of the way we can hit create and there you have
the size for merch by amazon and you can check again document setup 4500 by 5400 if you want
another one you can just click this insert artboard so i'm going to label this artboard
t-shirt vac merch t-shirt mba t-shirt and then i'm gonna do another art board so
let's click that again insert artboard and you can see this artboard here is the same exact
size but i can change the size let me show you how to do that i'm just going to play
click this transform here and you can see it's 45 by 5400 4500 by 5400 the hoodies are 40 50
right there so that's your hoodie size so now you have both. I'm going to say MBA hoodie
and of course you could do more for the the pillows and the pop sockets and the phones
and stuff but that's how you do it if you want both here so let me show you how to do
the vintage sunset since that's what this video is about i'm going to come in here
zoom in i'm going to zoom in a little bit and then i'm just going to use this rectangle tool
super simple so right here i'll draw a rectangle um no outline just the color i'm going to start
with red just pick a red here okay and then i'm going to just hold down shift hold down option and
shift and drag so option shift click on this and drag that's just making a copy of it right super
simple you can do that again and again or you can just hit command j and it will do it for you
so there is a super simple way to do a vintage sunset you would just change
the colors in this case so let me change this onto orange yellow you can see how that like
right you could change different colors here this may not be the color scheme that you want but i'm
going to show you you can just change the color so this is super easy way to do a vintage sunset
let's see you know something like that there's your your basic sunset now we're gonna do it just
a little bit different we're gonna change the size of the rectangle so let's say this one we
want this one bigger and then each one of them after that is a little smaller so this one's
just a little bigger this one's just a little smaller right this one's just a little smaller
and you can kind of eyeball it there's no real right or wrong way to do this one so if you want
to make it bigger smaller and then bigger again you can do that but i'm just going to show you
bigger bigger smaller like that check that out that's another way to do a vintage sunset now
most of you are thinking when you think vintage sunset you're thinking the circle version of
vintage sunset so let's let's do this i'm going to select all of these and i'm going to make it
a little smaller and group them so now you can see i have this group this is my rainbow color group
or vintage sunset let me just name it here sunset so you can see what's going on so now i have the
sunset the next thing i want to do is actually put it in a circle so i have the circle tool here
and you can just make it if you hold down shift it will make it a perfect circle you can see right
there at the bottom the width and the height are the same and then just move it to the size
that you want let me do this outline so you can see it better so c right there if that's what
you want if you want the whole thing to be in a circle then you can do that if you want half of
it to be in a circle or just some of it you can do that so let's do the whole circle first and
then i'll come back and do just some of the circle so here's the whole circle you can see the circle
is inside the group so i'm going to want to remove this outline so it's not there right
i'm going to move the group that i have this group above the circle you can see here in
my layers palette i move the sunset above the ellipse or the circle i can call this circle
if you want just so we have it okay so what you want to do now is just pull the sunset down
into the circle and to the right you see how i did that into the right and now it's inside the circle
now you have your vintage sunset in a circle so let's go back and change the shape on this
i'm hitting command z to go back and let's change that circle now
to be a little bigger so it goes outside so you can see we have that edge on the
bottom now we have that flat edge instead of it curving down we have that flat edge
and you can make the circle as big as your sunset here so let's do that
so now the circle is a different shape so
let's see what happens when we clip the sunset to that shape
down and in and there you go so now you have this kind of sunset where the bottom
is flat like that isn't that super simple that's really simple right
so the next thing you want to do is just change colors and that's real
easy if you want to do different colors you can just go in here and these are still
rectangles and you can still change the colors on them so let's say i want this to be a darker red
and i want this to be a darker color
right you can still do that in here maybe you want it to be just a gradient of blue so let's do that
so here's a vintage sunset of just a blue color right so you can see it's real easy
to change the colors and you can change the shapes too so let's use a different shape
so if you just want to get rid of the shape and do it again take this sunset outside of the shape now
and you can see the shape is still there that ellipse is still there and we can just delete it
and let's pick a different shape let's say i want to do a shape that has kind of a round
top but long on the side so that would just be a rectangle and a circle right so let's do that
so you got this kind of shape here where it's round on the top and long on the sides so let
me just put these two together and then i'm going to make it so it fits the shape
do that and then let's do this so we have the shape
put the shape on the bottom again right and then make sure the shape doesn't have any color in it
and then put the sunset in the shape boom there's a different vintage sunset right
so the possibilities are endless not only can you change the color and the shape but you can change
the width of these vintage sunset rectangles right so if once you're in here and you want
to make this this rectangle bigger you can you want to make this rectangle smaller you can
now you may be thinking what do i do if i want a shape in it what if i want a silhouette in it now
and change it so let me go back to our colored one i'm going to hit command z and go all the
way back let's see to our nice vintage sunset that we had before with the circle
i want the colored one in this cool undo z undo undo okay let's say we we're
here and we want a silhouette in it so i went ahead and grabbed this silhouette that i had
this is a just a surfer silhouette you can see it's just points here so it is a vector as well so
i can put the silhouette on here and just make it to the right size so let's say i want it you know
right there like that and you can see that it's on here everything is grouped this is grouped here
just make sure this is on top so once you have the silhouette on top of your sunset you're gonna
click on the silhouette and use this layer effect and it is erase so when you click erase like that
and you group both of these together now let's group them together so this is now
the full sunset if you had a black background let's do a background here and make it black
and put it in the back you'll see that it knocked it out right so that's how you want
to do it super simple i'm going to get rid of that background i'm going to zoom out
and let's say you want this now you can hold shift make sure that it's the right size for your shirt
right there center it and maybe you want text underneath
i'm going to do maybe surfer make that bigger i'm going to use veneer of course so let's do
(there's veneer)
surfer i'm going to make it white because this is going to be on a black background
and i'm going to stretch it out like that
and you can use whatever words you want right and you could use one of
these colors in the sunset as well so let me just use i like this light color here
surfer i think that would look really cool okay now you have this you're going to select on here
and then i like to export you can go to your menu and export or you can hit command option shift s
and this will do export as well that's a shortcut and select your png file make sure it's the right
size right here and then you want to do selection only when you export and export and then call it
whatever you want to call it i'm going to call the mind surfer and save and that's how easy it
is let me show you what happens when i saved it so you can see my surfer png file that i saved
is knocked out it's transparent and it's good to go it's the right size 5400 by 4500 for merged by
amazon you can do the same thing for other sizes as well as this hoodie if you saved it to here
you could have done the same thing and exported it as a hoodie so that's how easy it is to do a
vintage sunset in affinity designer remember to use uh groups remember to use the shapes
we're masking here by dragging it underneath and we also use the layer effects of erase
to erase the silhouette from it super simple guys um that is it for this video hopefully this video
is really helpful for you hopefully now you can make your own vintage sunsets super easy
there's lots of different techniques to do this if you know a different technique or have used
a different technique for vintage sunsets for affinity designer let me know in the comments
and let me know if you have any other questions about vintage sunsets about different maybe
different variations of vintage sunsets that you want to do but this one is a super simple one of
course you can make yours different by changing the colors the shapes i mean the size of the
of the rectangles as well so lots of variety you can do here you don't have to copy anybody you can
make it your own so thanks so much for watching this video hopefully is really helpful for you
and your reward for staying all the way to the end is another edition of trend credits.
Thanks for joining me for this trend credit. Here is your trend,
"Bye bye school hello pool" you can see lots of low BSRs here. Well those aren't very low.
That's low that's low uh there are some low ones here as well let's check Merch Informer
it is getting an A so you know it's good. If you don't have Merch Informer I have a link
in the description for Merch Informer. You can click on that and get Merch Informer and check
your competition yourself as well as get some graphics and some cool stuff on here let's go
back to that trend this trend is kind of saturated but the reason why I wanted to share this trend
is for two reasons first think about summer stuff summer things are going to be really hot right now
people this is definitely a summer t-shirt right school's over going to the pool so think of other
summer designs when you're designing stuff and if you're trying to create something original
this is a good way to do it. Don't copy this but the rhyming part see school pool come up
with your own phrase that rhymes and you could probably come up with your own original design
think of things for summer. Things that rhyme with summers things that rhyme with dad with barbecue
you know even other things like guitars and cars those rhyme so different things like that.
Just brainstorm on doing the rhyming thing and you could come up with your own trending phrase
and be the first one to get there and sell a lot of t-shirts before people start figuring out that
yours is really cool. So um think about that when doing your own designs your own original designs
that's one way to do it is the rhyming phrases here so that's why i wanted to share this with you
not only is this a trend but it's a good idea a good way to do some other t-shirts summer
t-shirts. Rhyming t-shirts and things like that so that is your trend for this video.
So that is it for this video guys thanks so much for watching hopefully this video is
really helpful for you even if you knew how to do some vintage sunsets hopefully there is something
in this video that that you learned how to do different in affinity designer maybe it's the
colors the shapes the erase tool or something like that let me know in the comments if there's
other things that you want to learn how to do an affinity designer i'd love to teach that to you
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